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They just don’t make ’em like they used to, though they try.
The Old Way is a by-the-books Western, distinguished only by being Nicolas Cage’s “first” out-and-out foray into the genre.
When we first encounter outlaw Colton Briggs (Cage, complete with droopy mustache), he’s watching a public hanging preceded over by his employer, a self-righteous local bigwig.…
Whether it’s the cowboys-and-Indians of the 1950s or the “revisionist” approach that has since come to define the genre, the Western is all about the persistence of legends.
Former pioneer Henry (Tim Blake Nelson) and his son Wyatt (Gavin Lewis) live alone on a remote farm.…
Episode 129 of The Movie Robcast is the first instalment of our London Film Festival review.
To keep it to a manageable length we’ve decided to break it down into multiple episodes this year.
Kicking off proceedings is Jeymes Samuel’s lively Western, The Harder They Fall, starring Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Regina King, Lakeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz, and Delroy Lindo.…
Jane Campion return to filmmaking after a twelve-year hiatus with a composed yet striking rumination on masculinity and repression.
The second Netflix western of the festival, The Power of the Dog starts as a tale of two brothers – the plump, well-scrubbed George (Jesse Plemons, an undemonstrative Newfoundland dog) and the lean, raw-boned Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch, a sharp-eyed Border Collie) – who run a large ranch in Montana circa 1925.…
The Comeback Trail is a cheesy, intermittently charming comedy caper elevated by the strength of its cast.
A remake of the 1982 comedy of the same name, it stars Robert DeNiro as Max Barber, a small-time movie producer in 70s Hollywood.…
Or how the West was sold.
CONTAINS SPOILERS, INCLUDING THE ENDING OF THE FILM
Robert Altman’s 1971 “anti-Western” is a gently ironic paean to the gentle charms of the more civilised frontier and a salutary lesson about the dangers of unchecked capitalism.…
It’s been a minute since our last episode so #110 is a bumper wrap-up of what the Robs have been watching.
First, the shocking revelation that Gerard Butler has made a good movie with end-of-days disaster movie Greenland, currently available on Amazon Prime.…
That’s perhaps never been clearer than with the recent hubbub surrounding the screening of The Hateful Eight.…
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